Chief of Regional Audit Center Latin American and

hace 4 semanas

Panama United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) A tiempo completo

**Job Identification**
- 17965

**Locations**
- Panama City, Panama**Posting Date**
- 05/09/2024, 04:17 PM
- 05/23/2024, 10:59 PM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Grade**
- P5

**Vacancy Type**
- Fixed Term

**Practice Area**
- Management

**Independent office**
- Office of Audit and Investigations

**Contract Duration**
- 2 Year with Possibility for extension

**Education & Work Experience**
- Master's Degree -10 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 12 year(s) experience

**Required Languages**
- English, Spanish

**Mobility required/no mobility**
- mobility required

**Background**

**Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**

OAI reports to the Administrator and is responsible for internal audit and investigations services to UNDP and its affiliated entities. OAI provides independent, objective assurance on the effectiveness of risk management and the effectiveness and adequacy of internal controls.

OAI has a decentralized organizational structure with Directorate and other headquarter units, based in New York, and Regional Audit Centres (RAC) located in the five regions: Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Pretoria (South Africa), Dakar (Senegal), Panama City (Panama) and Istanbul (Turkey).

At the Headquarters level OAI has the Investigations Section, the Headquarters Audit Section, the Special Advisory Services Section, ICT Audit Section, and the Directorate.

Under the guidance and supervision of the Deputy Director (Audit), OAI, the Chief, Regional Audit Centre manages UNDP internal audit function in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean supported by four Audit Specialists (2 P-4 and 2 P-3), and one Administrative Associate (G-6 level).

**Position Purpose**

Under the overall supervision of the Deputy Director (Audit), the primary role of the Chief is to manage and supervise the work of RAC-LAC, as outlined in ‘Organizational Context’ above.

The Regional Audit Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean manages UNDP internal audit function in the region that comprises 25 country offices (including several Multi-Country Offices in the Caribbean, such as Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago as well as Guyana in South America).

He/she develops working relationships with management and stakeholders in order to improve risk management and controls and promote effectiveness and efficiency of operations.

The primary role of the Audit Chief is to lead the team that conducts internal audits of activities carried out by UNDP country offices in the region, undertake project audits of directly implemented projects as well as project funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund or GF). Some of these tasks may include undertaking audit assignments in areas with hardship or hazardous working conditions. In addition, the Chief may be tasked to provide advisory services to the various units within the region or at the corporate level and is also responsible for the administration of the annual HACT/NIM audit exercise.

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Leads management functions.**
- As a member of the OAI management team, contributes to new strategic initiatives, and to the continuous improvement of processes and methodologies.
- Effectively manage the human resources assigned, including providing support to staff in the achievement of their career goals, ensuring appropriate learning, training and development, and actively participating in planning and assessing staff performance.

General accountabilities include:

- Achieving the results and outputs for the Centre, as documented in OAI Annual Work Plan.
- Establishing and maintaining effective quality control over the activities and outputs of the Centre, to ensure that they conform to professional practices and standards of OAI, the Institute of the Internal Audit and UNDP in general.
- Managing within delegated authority, the human, financial and other resources of the Centre.

**Manages services to clients.**
- Manages internal audit services for the region, ensuring proper planning, high quality

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